This week’s marketing over coffee audio program talks about using sex to sell, among other topics.

I had an inquiry come in on viral marketing today. Here are a few things that I’ve taken notice of in the past few months:
Crank dat.
26 million views. MIT Takes notice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpocrqvP2Yg

On the other side: GhostRide
Everybody backs out due to safety concerns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJDLRCXR2ZM

Crossfit
Uses online community and video for a demanding workout program

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Eyg32W4aE

Twitter has spread with no marketing […]

Jeff Cutler decided to take a cut at The M Show since the production schedule has gotten so lazy with the bums over there.
Check it out:

It only took an extra week to get the Tivo rolling, I ordered 2 cable cards from my cable provider and had 2 cable boxes show up. Then a tech came and installed the cards, but one of them was dead. Verizon was good enough to send out another tech two days later, on a […]

I had a chance last week to chat with Mac McIntosh last week, I first met him a few years back when he was speaking at a MarketingSherpa event, he came away as the highest ranked speaker of the event and stood ahead of the rest of the crowd. I stole one of his techniques […]

As part of the sales/marketing lifestyle we’ve talked about travel before, I had a road warrior tip bail me out this week. I always keep a $20 stashed somewhere in my gear. I’m lucky enough know that the battery bay in my Palm Centro is large enough that I can keep one in there (and […]

The latest Marketing Over Coffee is up:

And, if you are a data junkie (as if there were any Marketers who weren’t?) MarketingSherpa has their latest online advertising report out:

So I ordered two Cable Cards over a week ago so I can set up the HD Tivo which arrived today. Instead of two cable cards I got 2 cable set-top boxes. We’ll see how long this takes to fix….
Lots of boring work this week, nothing exciting to report. The Microsoft/Yahoo deal dying is of […]

The HD DVD Player has been pulled from the Studio N Media Center. I would have kept it in there because there are some great deals on HD DVDs with their limited lifespan, but there’s something screwy with ours that’s connected to the Xbox 360. I can put the discs in and play them but […]

The past two weeks have been much crazier than usual. The good news is that the weekend is not out of control, the bad news is that I’m not really up for writing about hardcore marketing stuff on the weekend. Here’s some interesting points from the last week.
TIVO is Returning to Studio N! I have […]